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Author Phil Patton and singer Linda Thompson on this edition of Fresh Air. Phil Patton is the author of Bug: The Strange Mutations of the World's Most Famous Automobile. It's a cultural history of the Volkswagen Beetle, the most produced and best known car of all time. Patton writes for the New York Times, Esquire, Wired, and ID. He also wrote Dreamland: Travels inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51. Linda Thompson's back performing after a long hiatus.

Writer Leslie Esptein on this edition of Fresh Air. His father and uncle were the scriptwriting team responsible for Arsenic and Old Lace, Casablanca, and many other Hollywood classics. Epstein grew up in a glamorous and troubled household.

Poet and memoirist Mary Karr on this edition of Fresh Air. In a follow-up to Liar's Club, what critics call "a hard scrabble childhood," Karr returns to East Texas to detail her adolescence in Cherry. The author relates anecdotes of rebellion, self-doubt, and sexual coming of age. The recipient of several literary awards such as the Pushcart Prize and the Bunting Award, she has published two volumes of poetry. She is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.

Irish writer Nuala O'Faolain and music legend Johnny Cash on this edition of Fresh Air. Her first novel, My Dream of You.

Journalist Orville Schell and Veton Surroi, publisher of the leading independent Albanian newspaper in Kosovo on this edition of Fresh Air. For centuries now, the mountainous and remote nation of Tibet has been the object of Western fascination. Today, Tibet is the subject of movies and Hollywood celebrities have taken on Tibetan Freedom as their cause. Schell talks about his new book Virtual Tibet, and about Tibet, real and imagined, and takes us through the history of the West's infatuation. He has covered China and Tibet for many years, and is the author of a number of books. Plus, Surroi, publisher of Koha Dotire has just received a democracy award from the National Endowment for Democracy, a U.S. non-profit bipartisan organization. During NATO's bombing of Kosovo, Surroi was in hiding and his newspaper was published underground.

Staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer Thomas Ginsberg and Republican Convention protesters Michael Morill and Amy Kwasnicki on this edition of Fresh Air.

Hear journalist and historian Burton Hersh, book critic Maureen Corrigan, and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Burton Hersh has chronicled the Kennedy family for over 35 years. His new book is Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover that Transformed America. Hersh writes that, as attorney general, Robert Kennedy tried to keep his FBI director on a short leash.

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward and British actor Jeremy Northam on this edition of Fresh Air. Bob Woodward is assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. He's the author of eight nonfiction best sellers including All the President's Men, and The Final Days, about the presidency and The Brethren about the Supreme Court.

Hear actor Mark Ruffalo and rock historian Ed Ward on this edition of Fresh Air. Mark Ruffalo's new film is Reservation Road. He plays a divorced lawyer who accidentally kills a child and then speeds away. It's based on the novel of the same name. Then, Ed Ward reviews the Rhino Records box set Rockin' Bones: '50s Punk and Rockabilly.

Hear business columnist Gretchen Morgenson, TV producer Adam Fierro, intelligence expert (retired) Colonel Stuart Herrington, and human-rights advocate David Danzig on this edition of Fresh Air. Morgenson has covered the financial markets for The New York Times since 1988. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her "trenchant and incisive" coverage of Wall Street. She is also assistant business and financial editor for the Times.

Film director and writer Todd Solondz, film critic David Edelstein and music journalist and film maker Robert Gordon on this edition of Fresh Air. Todd Solonz's recent film Storytelling, inflamed some critics more than his previous two features, Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness.

Psychiatrist and director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj; and psychiatrist, peace activist, and feminist, Dr. Ruchama Marton on this edition of Fresh Air. The Programme is a non-profit Palestinian, non-governmental organization, formed to help families cope with the aftermath of torture and violence. El-Sarraj is well known in the occupied territories and Israel as Gaza's first practicing psychiatrist, and for his efforts to foster co-existence between Arabs and Jews.

Film director Rob Sitch on this edition of Fresh Air. Rob Sitch and his creative team at Working Dog, got their start in morning radio; then switched to TV.

Film composer Howard Shore on this edition of Fresh Air. Howard Shore has over sixty film scores to his credit including the recent The Lord of the Rings, also The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, The Silence of the Lambs, Ed Wood, and Philadelphia. Shore was also one of the original creators of Saturday Night Live, serving as Musical Director from 1975 to 1980.

Working cop and writer Richard Rosenthal and jazz saxophonist James Carter on this edition of Fresh Air. For twenty years, Rosenthal was a detective for the New York Police Department where he dealt with homicide, narcotics, and armed robbery. Now he is the chief of Police in a small village on Cape Cod. He'll talk about the differences between the two kinds of police work. Rosenthal is the author of two books about police work called Sky Cops and K-9 Cops.

A discussion about the pros and cons of the electoral college system and non-traditional voting on this edition of Fresh Air. Curtis Gans, an expert on voter turnout and participation, supports the electoral process. He is the director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, a non-partisan group which analyzes the habits of voters. Akhil Amar is Southmayd Chair of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School.

Hear New York Times reporter Andrea Elliott, entrepreneur Joel Hafvenstein, and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead on this edition of Fresh Air. Andrea Elliott talks about her recent New York Times Magazine cover story. She explains how the small Moroccan neighborhood of Jamaa Mezuak has bred terrorists responsible for a number of recent high-profile attacks.

Hear writer/director Judd Apatow and actor Seth Rogan, rock critic Ken Tucker, and film critic David Edelstein, on this edition of Fresh Air. Judd Apatow wrote and directed the hit comedy Knocked Up, which is now out on DVD. Rogan stars in it as a slacker who becomes a father after a one-night stand. Apatow also wrote and directed the comedy hit The 40 Year Old Virgin. Apatow also worked on the Emmy award-winners Freaks and Geeks (as did Rogan) and The Ben Stiller Show.

Terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna and writer James Gavin on this edition of Fresh Air. Rohan Gunaratna's new book is Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror. Gunaratna spent five years conducting interviews with Al Qaeda, doing field research and monitoring the group's infiltration in communities in North America and Europe. He is a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrew's, Scotland.

Dr. Vjosa Dobruna, one of this year's recipients of the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights, on this edition of Fresh Air.